Tag: Xombie

NASA Still Hopes to Fly Payloads on Virgin Galactic, XCOR Space Planes
By 2014.03.26 0 Comments Read More →

NASA Still Hopes to Fly Payloads on Virgin Galactic, XCOR Space Planes

Image Credit: Virgin Galactic If 2014 really is the year the commercial suborbital industry finally takes off, one NASA program is ready to take advantage of the opportunity and help it gain altitude. It is the agency’s Flight Opportunities Program, which originally began in 2009 as the Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program. Since then, it […]

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When Xombies Attack
By 2013.04.03 0 Comments Read More →

When Xombies Attack

While SpaceX has been getting the lion’s share of RLV publicity lately with an increasingly ambitious set of tests for the Grasshopper test vehicle, (and a posthumous nod from Johnny Cash) it is by no means the only company pushing the envelope of closed loop control.  Working with NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Draper Labs,  Masten Space System’s Xombie  technology […]

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